Dad Vail Regatta: Rowing a family affair for Shawnee grads

12:08 AM,
May 10, 2013

Kathleen (left) and Anthony Fittipaldi of Medford will compete in the Dad Vail Regatta.

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Before she ever sat in a sculling boat, Kathleen Fittipaldi stood on the famed banks of the Schuylkill River and watched her older brother, Anthony, row in the Dad Vail Regatta.

"It is surreal for me to now watch her," Anthony said. "It wasn't that long ago she was on the side of the river watching me row."

Indeed, life flows on like a river, not stopping to take even a nice nap on a sunny day under a tree below the Philadelphia Museum of Art, where the 75th Dad Vail Regatta opens today and continues with the semifinals and finals Saturday afternoon. ...